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1Nov1898Old-age Pensions Act becomes law
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1Nov1944Polish refugees land in New Zealand
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2Nov1868New Zealand becomes first country to adopt a standard time
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2Nov19422 New Zealand Division leads breakthrough at El Alamein
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3Nov1863Naval attack on Pūkorokoro, Firth of Thames
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3Nov1886Birth of Anchor butter
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3Nov1886Manawatū rail link opened
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3Nov1974'Summer time' reintroduced on trial basis
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4Nov1918New Zealand Division liberates Le Quesnoy
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4Nov1930Phar Lap wins the Melbourne Cup
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5Nov1881Invasion of pacifist settlement at Parihaka
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5Nov1913Battle of Featherston Street
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6Nov1908Last spike completes North Island main trunk railway
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7Nov1848The Acheron arrives to survey New Zealand waters
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7Nov1912Public Service Act passed into law
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7Nov1970Last unclimbed face of Aoraki/Mt Cook conquered
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8Nov1936New Zealanders march into besieged Madrid
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8Nov1939New Zealand Centennial Exhibition opens
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9Nov1769Cook observes transit of Mercury
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9Nov1920White New Zealand policy introduced
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10Nov1868Te Kooti attacks Matawhero
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10Nov1871Telegraph Department cleared of 'hacking' charges
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10Nov1880Sutherland Falls 'discovered'
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11Nov1918Armistice Day
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11Nov1942Troopship Awatea goes down fighting
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11Nov1978Andy Haden dives to save rugby test
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12Nov1912Striker fatally wounded at Waihī
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13Nov1896Mount Tongariro erupts
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13Nov1990Thirteen shot dead at Aramoana
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14Nov1973DPB legislation enacted
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15Nov1861First issue of Otago Daily Times published
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16Nov1840New Zealand officially becomes British colony
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16Nov1869Hamiora Pere executed for treason
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16Nov1916First conscription ballot
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17Nov1925New Zealand and South Seas International Exhibition opens
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18Nov1874Cospatrick fire kills 470
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18Nov194741 die in Ballantynes fire
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19Nov2010Pike River mine explosion kills 29
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20Nov1841Mass murder in the Bay of Islands
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20Nov1937Parachuting Santa crashes in Auckland
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21Nov1863British capture Rangiriri
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22Nov1939Freyberg given command of 2NZEF
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23Nov1918Influenza pandemic reaches peak mortality
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23Nov194125 Battalion suffers heavy casualties at Point 175
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23Nov1947Civic funeral for 41 Ballantynes fire victims
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23Nov1986Pope John Paul II celebrates Mass in windy Wellington
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24Nov1959Fifteen die in mysterious shipwreck
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25Nov1903Bob Fitzsimmons wins third world boxing title
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26Nov1960'Kiwi Keith' begins 12-year tenure as prime minister
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27Nov1849Death of Te Rauparaha
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27Nov1935Labour wins power
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27Nov1940Liner sunk off East Cape
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28Nov1893Women vote in first general election
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28Nov1953New Zealand's first family planning clinic opens
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28Nov1979257 killed on Mt Erebus
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28Nov2008Air New Zealand A320 crashes in France
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29Nov1877Education Act passed into law
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29Nov1893First woman mayor in British Empire elected
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29Nov1949First female Māori MP elected
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30Nov1949Election of first National government